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Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine / edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.

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Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine / edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.
Publication
Hagerstown, Md. : University Pub. Group, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Rubin, Susan B., 1962-
  • Zoloth, Laurie.
Description
x, 374 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Ethics in clinical medicine series
Uniform Title
Ethics in clinical medicine series.
Subject
  • Diagnosis
  • Diagnostic errors > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Medical Errors
  • Medical errors > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Medical errors
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical laws and legislation
  • Patient Care
  • Professional-Patient Relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Framing our mistakes -- Ch. 2. To err is human: american culture, history, and medical error -- Ch. 3. The life-long-error, or John Marcher the Proleptic -- Ch. 4. Humility reconsidered -- Ch. 5. Mistakes in context -- Ch. 6. Facing our mistakes -- Ch. 7. Error in medicine -- Ch. 8. Mistakes in medicine: personal and moral responses -- Ch. 9. Learning to keep a cautious tongue: the reporting of mistakes in neurosurgery, 1890 to 1930 -- Ch. 10. Rush from judgment -- Ch. 11. How should ethics consultants respond when careproviders have made or may have made a mistake? Beware of ethical fly paper! -- Ch. 12. Taking responsibility for medical mistakes -- Ch. 13. Dead wrong: error in clinical ethics consultation -- Ch. 14. Moral residue -- Ch. 15. Quality and error in bioethics consultation: a puzzle in pieces -- Ch. 16. Errors in ethics consultation -- Ch. 17. Margin of error: the sociology of ethics consultation -- Ch. 18. Ethics consultation and the law: what is the standard of care? -- Ch. 19. Continuous quality improvement in case reviews facilitated by hospital ethics committees -- Ch. 20. Why medical ethicists don't (and won't) share uncertainty -- Ch. 21. Errors in healthcare ethics consultation.
ISBN
  • 1555720536
  • 1555720782 (canceled/invalid)
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library